> i think that ntpdate should be run with "-b -s" at boot time,
> rather than just "-b", so that it's messages are logged via
> syslog, not to stdout.
>
> i will change this in a few days, unless there are reasonable
> objections.
Well, I have in my local /etc/rc for a long time had this
construct:
poll=`egrep '^server|peer' /etc/ntp.conf | awk '{ print $2 }'`
output=`$ntpdir/ntpdate -b $poll 2>&1`
offset=`echo $output | sed -e 's/.*offset //'`
echo -n ", ntpdate (off: $offset)"
(Maybe not as clever as it coulb be, but the effect is the
point...) You could if course also log the ntpdate output via
the syslog command. I do however find it nice to see when the
machine boots (among the startup messages) how much it's drifted
away from real time.
Just a thought,
- Havard